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The fatal line consisted of four creosoted poles, invisible in the dark since they were unlighted, strung with two naked copper wires.* The line was raised between nine-thirty and two the night of the accident in accordance with a permit for emergency service granted to Florida Power & Light Co...
About 3,000,000 of the telephone poles now standing are products of Joslyn Manufacturing & Supply Co. of Chicago. This is less than one-twentieth the number that U. S. travelers see flicking past them on the highways of the land, but it is enough to make Joslyn the biggest...
*Western Union and American Telephone & Telegraph Co. supply their own poles.
Fact is the sun compass was invented for Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd by unassuming, expert Chief Cartographer Alfred H. Bumstead of the National Geographic Society. The worthy Admiral has publicly said that without it he could never have reached the Poles. Modest Cartographer Bumstead would never tell you this himself...
In Africa's Kenya Colony jungle Mrs. Osa Johnson, widow of Explorer Martin Johnson, leading a safari to make moving pictures, rescued her friends Canadian Goldminer Phillip Whitmarsh and his wife. Flying to join the Johnson party, they had crashed 30 miles from Nairobi, spent four days without food...